Quotes About Music

The family spiritual void has left the field open to rock music. The result is nothing less than parents loss of control over their childrens moral education at a time when no one else is seriously concerned with it.

Nothing noble, sublime, profound, delicate, tasteful or even decent can find a place in such tableaux [as Rock music]. There is room only for the intense, changing, crude and immediate, which Tocqueville warned us would be the character of democratic art.

Paul's approach was positively lackadaisical when compared to a performer like James Brown, who was known to impose fines on his players for wrong notes or deviations from the arrangements. But this was alien to the freewheeling rock band aesthetic that Paul thought he wanted when he formed Wings. In

What he missed was "the lack of great sounding boards like John, Ringo, George to actually talk to about the music.

The song Paul chose for this second session, 'Get on the Right Thing,' is built around McCartney's interesting use of a common-tone harmonic trick: the chords accompanying the song's verses all contain an E natural, but the melody McCartney sings against them steadily rises, creating a subtle tension harmonically, and between stasis and movement.

At the time," Paul said, "I felt that it was a bit too predictable, that everyone would leave the Beatles and go with old Phil Spector or the drummer, Jim Keltner. It was like a clique, and I just didn't want to join in that clique."32 By contrast, Paul was impressed with the approach Ringo was taking.

What Paul did not know was that Laine was broke, and homeless, and sleeping in the back room of Secunda's office, and that he was trying to keep body and soul together with a Tin Pan Alley job, writing songs and recording demos at Essex Music in the hope that other artists would record them and earn him some royalties. He was writing a song when Paul telephoned.

A measure of that versatility was the fact that he recorded both the gentle 'Yesterday' and the high-energy 'I'm Down,' with its Little Richard–like screamed vocal line, at the same June 14, 1965, recording session.

My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Dearly beloved, We are gathered here today, To get through this thing called life. —Prince, "Let's Go Crazy

I sang because that is what I do when I am happy and when I'm sad. I sang because it is who I am when I am being the best possible version of me.

Do you hear the music, Mum?" "No, sweetheart. No, I don't hear it." She shook her head. Terror and tears filled her eyes. The wind felt cold, washing over me. "Neither do I.

It was funny. He was funny. Kat wanted to laugh. She tried to will herself to do it. To dance. To be the girl she'd tried—and failed—to be at Colgan. But instead she inched away from the very kind, very funny, very handsome boy who had followed her into the dark, somehow bringing the music with him.

But Dr. Steve says that music and sensory stimuli are essential in memory recall." "I've never heard him say that," Bex said. "Well…he told me," I said. Townsend shrugged. "With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect that he's a moron.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Albert Einstein, and John, Paul, George, and Ringo." He pauses, seeing the blank look on my face and groaning when he says, "Christ, Ever, the Beatles!" He shakes his head and laughs. "God, you make me feel old.

That was the exhilaration of creating one's own compositions, that one's personal melodies could be reborn in the voices and spirits of others.

La neuvième de Beethoven serait insoutenable aux oreilles si elle ne comportait des hésitations désespérés ...